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Chapter 5
The entire rise to the hospital took only about ten minutes but to Mercedes it felt like a lifetime. Both officers did their best to answer all her questions about the accident but there were some questions that only the doctors could answer and that didn't sit well with Mercedes. When they pulled up to the emergency room entrance mercedes barely allowed the officer to open her door before she was out the car and flying through the waiting room doors. Mercedes scanned the room in search of anyone dressed as a nurse or doctor. "Hello can anyone help me please? Hello my sister and my daughters were brought in earlier. She was speaking to a nurse now who was walking through the hallway. "ma'am calm down. What are their names?" the nurse's fingers tapped rapidly on the keyboard as she searched for the information. "Ok ma'am it seems that your daughters are both in surgery right now and your sister is in a room to your left right over there." Surgery? What's wrong with them? mercedes asked frantically? "im sorry ma'am but i don't have that information. as soon as a their doctor comes out I will have him update you. would you like for me to show you to your sister?" the nurse asked with an apologetic look on her face. "Yes please" Mercedes answered. the pair walked a few feet and the nurse pulled back the curtain that separated the patients from one another. Mercedes already racing heart almost jumped out her chest at the sight of her bloody faced sister. Sydney was in bad shape. she had a bloodied bandage covering the right side of her forehead, a cast on her right arm, sticthes on her lower lip and one of her eyes was swollen so badly it barely opened. Mercedes walked over to the bed where two new officers stood by the bed questioning Sydney.
"Syd, what happened?" Mercedes questioned, her voice barely above a whisper. Sydney turned her head to the direction her voice came from. she began sobbing and talking as she tried to explain to Mercedes how their afternoon trip to the zoo turned into the chaos before her.
Bailey and Riley were strapped into their respective booster seats in the back of Sydney's burgundy Nissan Murano. One would think after four hours exploring The Bronx Zoo two four year olds would be exhausted but not her nieces. Instead the twins were arguing about who saw the biggest giraffe and flinging popcorn at one another but Sydney didn't mind one bit. She loved every minute that she got to spend with her girls, specially since she didn't have any children of her own.
The car was traveling down the Cross Bronx Expressway when Riley stated that BAiley was choking. Sydney instructed Riley to pat her on the back but when Bailey began to grab at her throat in a panic she knew she needed to pull off the road to her. Sydney turned her head towards the back seat to calm Bailey down as much as she could but when she saw Bailey's eyes bulging she panicked and the steering wheel turned sharply causing the car to hit the middle divider and flip over.
The car skidded on its side across two lanes and before it could stop it had already been hit by two other cars. The sound of crying brought Sydney back from her unconscious state. She looked around to see what happened, still trying to get her bearings. She raised her hand to her face to wipe away whatever had spilled and gotten in her eyes. When she pulled her hand away she saw that her face was actually covered in blood. in the distance she could hear people yelling around the car but still dazed, she couldn't clearly make out what they were saying. just then she remembered the girls were in the back did her best to free herself from her seat so she could get to them. when she looked around she saw several pairs of moving feet but no girls. she started calling out for them in a panic when she heard a man telling her to stay calm. the ambulance was coming to get her to safety.
she still couldn't see the girls she hollered to the voice to ask where they were. he told her that the ambulance had already got to them and were taking them to the hospital but she needed to stay calm so they could work on getting to her.
when the new ambulance and the fire department arrived, they had to use the jaws of life to free sydney from the car. Suprisingly her injuries were not nearly as terrible as the rescuers were expecting butof course they still rushed her to the hospital to make sure.
"Sydney!" More tears spilled from Mercedes' eyes as she heard the details of the accident. Sydney took a deep breath and continued giving her accounts of what she could remember from earlier that day. When Sydney got to the hospital there were police officers already waiting to ask questions about the accident. They informed her that Bailey was thrown from the car because somehow her carseat became unbuckled when she began choking. Sydney didnt remeber unbuckling her so maybe her sister did it. Riley was fortunate enough to still have been secured in her seat but she too was in surgery according to the police. The police automatically assumed Sydney was under the influence and immediately began testing her for drugs and alcohol. Several times Sydney asked the officers about the girls and each time she asked they either refused to answer her or ignored her altogether. instead they kept drilling her with questions about why she took her eyes off the road, if she was having suicidal thoughts, and was she intentionally trying to hurt the children. it was almost a full hour before that went by before the officers and doctors cleared Sydney before she could call Mercedes and sam. She still didn't know too much about the condition of the girls. Just as she hung up from calling sam Mercedes walked in.
Mercedes stared in disbelief as Sydney finished her story. She still couldnt believe the words that Sydney just finished speaking. Just then, a doctor dressed in a blue surgical gown approached Mercedes and Sydney. "Excuse me, are you Mercedes Jones- Evans?" Mercedes nodded her head, afraid of what news the doctor was about to give. "Mrs. Evans, my name is Dr. Jonathan Roberts. I operated on your daughter Riley. Riley suffered a collapsed lung, a ruptured spleen and some intracranial hemorrhaging. I was able to relieve the pressure around her brain and remove the spleen to stop the bleeding. she came through the surgery but she is currently on a breathing machine until she is stable to undergo another procedure to repair the damage to her lung and rib cage. she has a lot of bruising and swelling but you can go see her as soon as we move her to the ICU. "what about Bailey, is she out of surgery? Mercedes asked frantically. Dr. Roberts looked at Mercedes Regrettably as he told her that he had no news on her second daughter. As the doctor walked away a hand landed on Mercedes Shoulder . She turned to see her husband standing there with bloodshot eyes and sweat pouring from his face as if he ran here from wherever he was when Sydney called him.